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Person code |
NA18540 |
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Corporate name |
Trinity Duke Street Kirk Session |
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Trinity Duke Street Church, Glasgow, originated with the union of Sydney Place and East Campbell Street Church with Wellpark in 1949. The congregation worshipped in the former Sydney Place church, in Duke Street at Sydney Street, but terminated in 1975 on uniting with Bluevale and Whitevale and Rutherford as Dennistoun Central. It was in the presbytery of Glasgow and the synod of Clydesdale.Each congregation of the Church of Scotland has a Kirk Session, which comprises the minister(s) and the ruling elders, all members of the Session (including the minister) being elders. The elders? duty is care for the spiritual needs of the congregation; each of them has a district of the parish assigned to him/her. The Kirk Session determines the number of elders. The minister is moderator of the Session, and there is a clerk who has custody of all the Session?s records. There may also be a treasurer, and an officer or beadle. The Session must have maintained a communion roll, containing the names and addresses of the communicant church members within the parish. The Kirk Session?s duties are to maintain good order amongst its congregation (including administering discipline and superintending the moral and religious condition of the parish), and to implement the Acts of the General Assembly. The Kirk Session is at the base of the pyramid of church courts, and it is subject to the review of the Presbytery in which it is situated, and to the superior courts of the Church. Each Kirk Session elects one of its number to represent it at the Presbytery (and formerly at the Synod).Into the 19th century, weekly collections were made for the support of the poor, but as the state began to assume responsibility for their support (by means of taxation) so funds collected from communicants might be directed to special schemes (eg support of missionaries), more recently through a weekly freewill offering scheme. Seat or pew rents were also quite common (money paid for a fixed seat in a church), but declined rapidly from the 1950s. Many congregations now have a congregational board, which monitors income and expenditure. Former Free Church congregations often had Deacons? Courts, which had responsibility for the whole property of the congregation, and had to apply spiritual principles in the conduct of their affairs. |
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Dates |
1949-1981 |
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Jurisdiction |
Presbytery of Glasgow |
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Notes |
See Andrew Herron, ?Historical Directory to Glasgow Presbytery? (duplicated, Glasgow, 1984) (copy in Glasgow City Archives), 204. |
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| CH2/1494 | Records of Glasgow, Trinity Duke Street / Dennistoun Central Kirk Session | 1949-1985 | | CH2/1494/1 | Glasgow, Trinity Duke Street Kirk Session - Congregational Board minutes | 1949-1955 | | CH2/1494/2 | Glasgow, Trinity Duke Street Kirk Session - Congregational Board minutes | 1955-1959 | | CH2/1494/3 | Glasgow, Trinity Duke Street Kirk Session - Congregational Board minutes | 1959-1964 | | CH2/1494/4 | Glasgow, Trinity Duke Street Kirk Session - Congregational Board minutes | 1964-1972 | | CH2/1494/5 | Glasgow, Trinity Duke Street Kirk Session - Congregational Board minutes | 1972-1975 | | CH2/1494/6 | Glasgow, Trinity Duke Street Kirk Session - Property Register | 1956-1965 | | CH2/1494/7 | Glasgow, Trinity Duke Street Kirk Session - Property Register | 1966-1975 | | CH2/1494/8 | Glasgow, Trinity Duke Street Kirk Session - Band of Hope account book | 1957-1973 | | CH2/1494/9 | Glasgow, Trinity Duke Street Kirk Session - General correspondence | 1951-1974 | | CH2/1494/10 | Glasgow, Trinity Duke Street Kirk Session - Correspondence regarding the sale of Wellpark buildings | 1949-1950 | | CH2/1494/11 | Glasgow, Trinity Duke Street Kirk Session - Correspondence regarding renovation scheme | 1956-1958 | | CH2/1494/12 | Glasgow, Trinity Duke Street Kirk Session - Correspondence regarding title deeds | 1965-1972 | | CH2/1494/13 | Glasgow, Trinity Duke Street Kirk Session - Correspondence regarding renovation scheme and organ | 1969-1970 | | CH2/1494/14 | Glasgow, Trinity Duke Street Kirk Session - Newsletter 'Monthly Message' | 1951-1953 | | CH2/1494/15 | Glasgow, Trinity Duke Street Kirk Session - Minutes | 1955-1958 | | CH2/1494/16 | Glasgow, Trinity Duke Street Kirk Session - Minutes | 1964-1974 | | CH2/1494/17 | Glasgow, Trinity Duke Street / Dennistoun Central Kirk Session - Birth and Baptismal Register | 1955-1985 | | CH2/1494/18 | Glasgow, Trinity Duke Street / Dennistoun Central Kirk Session - Marriage Register | 1963-1981 | | CH2/1494/19 | Glasgow, Trinity Duke Street Kirk Session - Supplementary Communion Roll | 1963-1974 |
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